No Fixed Plans

 Mirrors or Reflections  Glenview, Illinois Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we're challenged to share photos of mirrors or reflections. As always, we’re encouraged to be creative. What will you share? To see more wonderful pictures, click here .

  Pilsen, Chicago Thursday Doors is a weekly blogging challenge allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing it, between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time). To get to the hub where you'll find links to dozens of doors, click here .

 

  This video shows Cuban grocery shelves with scarce goods available before showing this Cuban man's reaction to visiting two American grocery stores. Communist China's grocery stores are similar to American ones with lots of choices. Cuba can trade with China, some European and other countries so I'd love to know exactly why Cuba is so bad off. 

  Pilsen, Chicago Each week Cee of Cee's Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we're to share photos with plenty of pink. Click here to see more fun photos. Jinan, China Pekanbaru, Indonesia

 I needed a restaurant in Chinatown to take a friend who's visiting. Triple Crown had 4 out of 5 stars on TripAdvisor.com and offered lunch specials at a good price (i.e. around $7.50). When we arrived at noon there was a short wait, which often means the food's good. The decor was outdated and to be kind the place lacked the signs of attention to cleanliness. But if you've been to China, you figure that means the food's great. Some of my favorite restaurants in Jinan couldn't pass the Chinese inspections.  The menu was long and had a lot of dim sum and protein offerings, but as for vegetable side dishes there were just two options. I wound up ordering Kungpao Chicken and my friend got vegetable fried rice. We shared an order of pork baoze (buns) and what we thought was Chinese broccoli. The baoze were good. The Chinese broccoli was hard to eat, whether we tried with chopsticks or forks. The taste was average.  My chicken was hardly the Kungpao chicken I've had ...

  My post for Monday Murals, hosted by Colourful World. To see many more murals, click here.